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Sara Cox sits in for Chris Evans and finds out from Blue Peter's science guy Greg Foot if humans will be returning to the moon anytime soon.

Sara sits in for Chris Evans and finds out from Blue Peter's super science guy Greg Foot if humans will be jetting off to the moon anytime soon! Sara also plays some top tune-age in the Half Wower, Mike Williams has an update on Northern Ireland's winning streak in the football and Leslie Griffiths has a Rolling Stones themed Pause For Thought.

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  • Whitney Houston

    How Will I Know

    • The Best Of.
    • Arista.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    The Pop Kids

  • Sylvester

    You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

    • Sylvester - The Original Hits.
    • Fantasy.

  • Village People

    In The Navy

    • The 70's: Back In The Groove - 1979.
    • Time Life.

  • Taylor Swift

    Style

    • 1989.
    • Universal.

  • Them

    Gloria

  • R.E.M.

    The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite

    • R.E.M. - Automatic For The People.
    • Warner Bros.

  • WALK THE MOON

    Work This Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Martha and the Muffins

    Echo Beach

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • The Real Thing

    You To Me Are Everything

    • In The Summertime-Sound Of 70's, Part.
    • Old Gold.

  • The Kinks

    Have A Cuppa Tea

  • Reef

    How I Got Over

    • (CD Single).
    • REEFBAND.
    • 1.

  • The Beat

    Can't Get Used To Losing You

    • The Best Of.
    • Go-Feet.

  • The Feeling

    Fill My Little World

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Island.

  • Jamiroquai

    Virtual Insanity

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
    • UMC.

  • Mark Ronson

    Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Oasis

    Wonderwall

    • What's The Story Morning Glory -Oasis.
    • Creation Records.

  • Carly Rae Jepsen

    Call Me Maybe

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Indeep

    Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

    • Soul Weekender (Various Artists).
    • Crimson.

  • Primal Scream

    Where the Light Gets in (feat. Sky Ferreira)

    • (CD Single).
    • First International.

  • Peggy Lee

    I'm A Woman

    • Peggy Lee- The Best Of The Capitol Ye.
    • Capitol.

  • Louis Armstrong

    We Have All The Time In The World

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.

  • The Police

    Walking On The Moon

    • The Very Best Of The Police.
    • A&M.

  • Stereophonics

    White Lies

    • (CD Single).
    • Stylus Records.

  • Annie Lennox

    Walking On Broken Glass

    • Now 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 2.

  • The Flying Pickets

    Only You

    • Christmas Love Songs (Various Artists.
    • Arcade Records.

  • The Stone Roses

    I Am the Resurrection

    • Cigarettes And Alcohol: 40 Modern Anthems (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Ben Montague

    We Start Over

    • (CD Single).
    • MWM Records.
    • 001.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Jumpin' Jack Flash

    • The Rolling Stones - Remastered.
    • Abkco.

  • Keane

    Somewhere Only We Know

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.

Chris' Pause For Thought: Ann Easter

Chris' Pause For Thought: Ann Easter

From Canon Ann Easter, Chaplain to the Queen:

I'm intrigued by the idea of our having a Radio 2 Poet in Residence - but, of course, it's not the first time we've had poetry on the Morning Show; back in the days of dear Sir Terry Wogan, his TOG's - Terry's Old Gals and Geezers - were forever writing odes, and someone wrote one for me. It went

Μύ

'I've fallen in love with Ann Easter

She's one of my favourite Vicars

I'll leave my fiancΓ©

And give up BeyoncΓ©

For a chance to get into her good books..........!!'

Μύ

I thought I didn't know much poetry but when I started to think about it, poetry's all around us; my grandparents taught me nursery rhymes that I now say to make my grandchildren laugh and I'm often asked to read a much-loved poem when I conduct a wedding or a funeral service - who could forget WH Auden's heart rending 'Stop all the clocks' Μύthat was used in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Μύ

The careful choice and placing of words, together with the rhythms they make, is what makes a poem and, in the very earliest days of humanity, that memorability of poetry was used very deliberately as a way of passing on important stories and legends to future generations. Some poems were shaped into folk songs as a tune helps to make words even more memorable - and that goes on to this day, when rapping is used as a rhythmic and rhyming way of making a point or a protest.

Μύ

And poetry takes the ordinary and mundane and enables us to look at them from a different angle - think of Pam Ayres with her 'I wish I'd looked after me teeth'; there's a rueful laugh in that poem but we recognise a ring of truth too.

Μύ

In church we use loads of poetry, some from the Bible, the psalms, for instance, are full of rich imagery Μύlike 'The Lord is my Shepherd' and some poems come in the form of hymns; that way, poetry helps us to put the truth of God's love into shapes we can recognise and remember.

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